Pro Jakarta Persistence in Jakarta EE 10: An In-Depth Guide to Persistence in Enterprise Java Development

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9. Criteria API

Lukas Jungmann¹  , Mike Keith², Merrick Schincariol³ and Massimo Nardone⁴

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Prague, Czech Republic

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Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Almonte, ON, Canada

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HELSINKI, Finland

 

In the last chapter, we looked in detail at the Jakarta Persistence QL query language and the concepts that underlie the Jakarta Persistence query model. In this chapter, we look at an alternate method for constructing queries that uses a Java programming language API instead of Jakarta Persistence QL or native SQL.

We begin with an overview of the Jakarta Persistence Criteria API ...